Trinity Journal, January 15, 1927: "Amanda Melvina Arbuckle, aged eighty-seven years passed to rest at the home of her son, T. R. Arbuckle on January 4, after a long illness, during the latter part of which she was almost helpless. Loving hands gave her every comfort and attention in her old age, ministering to her every need and desire to the final hour when her hands were folded on her pulse less breast. When her soul had gone beyond, all that was mortal of the pioneer woman was laid to rest in the Weaverville cemetery, where those who knew and loved her best, together with friends and neighbors, bowed their heads while the choir sang two lines of hope and faith and Rev. W. G. Trower, pastor of the Congregational church said the final words of solace and comfort.
Mrs. Arbuckle, whose maiden name was Tinker, was born in Missouri, November 28, 1839. When a girl of fourteen in the company with her parents and other members of the family she came to California. There were about a hundred persons in the party that came by wagon train across the plains, the trip being made via the Salt Lake route. They were six months on the way. The pioneer lady rode a horse all the way and aided in driving the cows and other cattle that were brought along with the train.
On May 29, in Napa valley, the subjects of this sketch was married to Tacitus R. Arbuckle. They were the parents of thirteen children, eight of whom are still living. Those surviving their parents are C.P. Arbuckle of Anderson, C. S. Arbuckle of San Diego, Mrs. Lilly Eastborn of Haisten, Texas, Dr. Glen Arbuckle of Chico, Mrs. Ruby Bedford of Berkeley, Mrs. Edith Freil of Arbuckle, Clarence Arbuckle of Seattle, and T. R. Arbuckle of Douglas City, this county. Two sisters of the deceased are living, Mrs. York of St. Helena, Napa County, and Mrs. Epps of Myrtle Point, Oregon. There are also living twenty-eight grandchildren, twelve great grandchildren and two great great grandchildren.
In 1859 Mr. and Mrs. Arbuckle located a homestead in the Sacramento valley, and in 1875 had the land platted for a town site. The elder Arbuckle founded the town, deeded the town lots, furnished the nails and helped build the first houses in what has since grown into the city of Arbuckle, know far and wide as "The Home of the Almond."
Mrs. Arbuckle was left a widow in 1899. She continued to make her home in the town that her husband had founded until her health failed several years ago, since which time she has resided with her son T. R. Arbuckle, and family, at Douglas City.
What startling changes have taken place in the West since the days when Mrs. Arbuckle turned her face toward the romantic State of California, crossed the Rocky Mountains and the Sierras and viewed the first sunset in the famed Golden State of the Pacific. What a wonderful story would have been hers if she could have written it down to be read by those to come after. But she has gone to a land where changes come not. Her final journey has taken her beyond the hills that are hidden from view by the mysterious purple haze which cannot be penetrated by earthly eyes, the gleaming light she has seen was not that of a sunset but an ever-shining light that reveals a place of many mansions, a land of ever blooming flowers, where sunsets never come."

Daughter Edith is buried in the College City, CA cemetery. College City and Arbuckle, CA are situated side by side.